Shant is a crypto startup operator and angel investor who previously served as COO at two venture-backed DeFi and NFT startups. Shant's Twitter Score is 96 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #8,663 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Shant, whose full name is Shant Marootian, spent five years at Deloitte Consulting before moving into crypto-native operations. He went on to serve as COO at Tessera, an NFT fractionalization protocol backed by a16z, Polychain, and Robot Ventures, among others. Tessera raised a $7M Seed round and a $20M Series A, and its products accumulated over $100M in onchain volume before the project was wound down by its board.
Shant subsequently served as COO at DELV, a fixed-rate AMM protocol that raised a $32M Series A from an overlapping set of investors including Paradigm. DELV was later wound down after a smart-contract vulnerability was discovered. Both roles gave Shant direct operational experience across fundraising, product launches, and protocol-level risk. He has been active onchain since 2017.
Shant is currently a Scout at ADIN and is affiliated with Tribute Labs. He has been mentioned by 18 accounts a total of 24 times, reflecting consistent engagement across the crypto operator and investor community. Shant's account has published 5,833 posts and has 3,223 followers as of July 2026.
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The accounts that follow Shant include 245 founders, 60 angel investors, 206 influencers and 3 VCs, among them Ansem, Threadguy, Farokh, Loomdart, David Hoffman and Gary Vaynerchuk.